But at this point, they are only accusations, and Wardle has plenty of supporters and defenders. Included on that list is the star of the UWGB team, center Alec Brown. Brown went on a local radio show to defend his coach, and went as far as to say that he believes that his former teammates are lying.

“Honestly, I don’t agree with the things that are being said,” Brown told the Maino and Nick Show. “I’ve been there the longest out of all the guys, and I feel like if I had recently seen any of this happening, I wouldn’t still be here. A lot of the stuff is not happening the way it’s being said.”

“The way that some players viewed certain situations, and the way they can lie about them. Some of these guys were really close to us.”

When the hosts asked him to clarify that statement, if, in his opinion, the accusers were actually lying, Brown said, “Yes, I believe so.”

“A lot of the stuff [that’s been] said is not true,” Brown added, “and it will all come out when the investigation is over.”

Keifer Sykes, the leading scorer for the Pheonix this past season, reiterated when Brown said, telling the Maino and Nick show that the accusations “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided all of us”.

“Clearly, the guys that are making these allegations are not in our program anymore,” Sykes told the radio station. “I guess when you leave they wanted to tear ir down. The truth will come out. There were 20 people that were there, and some people writing letters were never there when the allegations happened. The truth should come out.”

Sykes went on to say that while the incident where Bross soiled himself during a preseason conditioning drill did happen, the context of the interaction “is definitely skewed” in the allegation made in the paper. Sykes said that he was present for the entire incident, calling the drill “by far the hardest” that the team did all year.

“He was given the option to stop or keep going, and he decided to keep going,” Sykes said. “No one made anyone do anything. He’s a grown man. … He was being a team guy and didn’t want to quit, and I was there the whole time trying to motivate him to keep going.”

“I just remember after it happened, coach clearly stated that if anyone says anything about the situation, they will be removed from the team. So for the allegation to come out that coach made fun of it and basically cursed him out after it happened is not true. He actually protected him. Everyone knows that because there was clearly a team meeting and he asked everyone that was there that.”

N.C. State added a dynamic wing scorer late in their 2015 recruiting efforts on Sunday as reclassified 6-foot-7 wing Maverick Rowan committed to the Wolfpack. A three-level scorer, Rowan was previously committed to Pitt and later backed off of his pledge to the Panthers before deciding to move up a grade by taking two summer…